When the approaching officers told Cooley to put down the weapon, he put down the handgun but got a lever-action rifle from inside the front door, police said. Cooley headed toward officers with the rifle, who then fired on him, police said.

Cooley was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators found that he had suffered more than a dozen gunshot wounds and had not fired the rifle. The review found officers fired nearly 60 times at Cooley.

Cooley had told his wife earlier that he was going to have a standoff with police. “I’ve had enough. I can’t live any longer. If you want to leave you go ahead and leave, too, ‘cause it’s going down tonight. The cops are coming.”

Police said investigators found other weapons inside the house, including a shotgun and a bandoleer of shotgun ammunition just inside the front door. In one of the bedrooms, two rifle cases and assorted ammunition were found scattered on the bed and the floor near the bedroom closet.

Neighbors reported that Cooley had been shooting a gun in his backyard throughout the previous day and into the morning, and was also the one playing the loud music that promoted the initial complaint, police said.

Cooley’s wife and 16-year-old daughter told investigators that he had been drinking heavily and acting strangely throughout the previous day, and had been taking his guns out and loading them while acting paranoid and making suicidal threats, police said.

Due to Cooley’s behavior, his wife and daughter had left the house on Friday to stay with relatives.